Resources & Links
The starting point that I would recommend for any newcomers to native planting design and ecological stewardship interests are to read these two books:
The Landscaping Revolution: Garden with Mother Nature, Not Against Her
By Andy and Sally Wasowsk
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
By Douglas Tallamy
I also recommend these additional references:
Native Planting Design
‘Reading the Forested Landscape’
By Tom Wessels
‘The Once and Future Forest’
By Leslie Jones Sauer & Andropogon Associates
‘Watershed: A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water’
By Clive Dobson & Gregor Gilpin Beck
‘Livable Landscape Design’
By John Collins & Marvin Adleman
‘Natural Landscaping Designing with Native Plant Communities’
By John Diekelmann & Robert Schuster
‘Landscape Ecology Principle in Landscape Architecture & Land-Use Planning’
By Wenche Dramstad, James Olson & Richard Forman
‘Native Plants of the Northeast’
By Donald J. Leopold
‘The Flora of Bucks County’
By Walter Benner (out of print) ©1932
Rustic Furniture Design
‘Making Rustic Furniture’ and ‘Rustic Furniture Workshop’
Both by Daniel Mack
Online Resources:
Why Native Plants are So Important
Drosera
Redbud Native Plant Nursery
http://www.redbudnativeplantnursery.com/
Native Planting Design Reference Information
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
Natural Area Association
The Wild Ones
Ecology & Restoration Journals
Native Plants Journal
http://nativeplants.for.uidaho.edu/
Natural Area Association
Orion Society
Rhodora Journal
http://www.rhodora.org/Rhodora.html
The Society of Ecological Restoration (SER)
Native Plant Nurseries
American Native Plants Nursery
https://www.americannativeplants.com
Edge-of-the-Woods Native Plants
https://www.edgeofthewoodsnursery.com
Gino's Nursery
Kind Earth Growers
https://www.kindearthgrowers.com
Natural Landscapes Nursery (wholesale nursery)
http://www.naturallandscapesnursery.com/
Octoraro Native Plant Nursery (wholesale nursery)
Prairie Moon Nursery
Redbud Native Plant Nursery
https://www.redbudnativeplantnursery.com/
Sunset Farmstead
https://www.sunsetfarmstead.com
Toadshade Wildflower Farm
Tree Authority
http://www.treeauthority.net/home/html
Wild Ridge Plants
Organizations & Native Habitat Preserves
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
D&R Greenway Land Trust
Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space – New Jersey
Mt Cuba Center for the Study of Piedmont Flora
Natural Lands Trust
http://www.natlands.org/home/default.asp
New England Wildflower Society
Native Plant Society of New Jersey
Rustic Furniture
Daniel Mack